ABYSSINIA WILLING
ARBITRATION ON DISPUTE ITALIANS DYING DAILY TOLL TAKEN AT ERITREA (Klee. Tat Copy right (Received July 29. 1.20 p.m.) CRN KVA. duly 28. Abvssinin lius notilied the League id her willingness to resume ai'bit ral imi with Italy regarding the ironlier dis pule. ,i Djibouti message says that a I'i'eneli transport lias landed lour 'light guns, munitions, and barbed wire as local defensive measures in tlie cvenl of lialoA hvssinia n imstilit ies.
Furnpeau residents believe that 20 Italians are dying of illness daily m Fritrea, the Italian colony bordering Abyssinia in north-cast Aii'ica. I lie Italians admit six to ten deaths daily Tt is estimated that 5000 invalids have been evacuated from tlie frontier.
The Vatican City reports that tin Pope broke silence about Abyssinia in connection with the preliminaries to the beatification of Justin do Jacobis, -Apostolic delegate to Ethiopia, who died in 1860. The, Pope urged his hearers to hope for peace. He expressed the belief that nothing would occur contrary to justice and compassion. Vatican circles emphasise that the. Pope is not taking sides. It is realised, from the viewpoint of evangelisation, that the Catholic Church is anxious to extend its influence to Abyssinia. Catholics in Fritrea number 2,5.000. There tire only 2500 in the whole of Abyssinia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18770, 29 July 1935, Page 8
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